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What is Kopi Luwak? is it really cat shit?

Published: 2026-04-07 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/07, Kopi Luwak, also known as civet coffee. The official name of Kopi Luwak is KopiLuwak. Kopi means coffee in Indonesian and Luwak is a wild civet in Indonesia. The coffee is commonly known as Kopi Luwak because it is made from beans picked from the droppings of civets. Kopi Luwak is selected from the feces of civet cats to make Kopi Luwak, produced in Indonesia.

Kopi Luwak, also known as civet coffee. The official name of Kopi Luwak is KopiLuwak. Kopi means "coffee" in Indonesian, while Luwak is a wild civet in Indonesia. The coffee is commonly known as Kopi Luwak because it is made from beans picked from the droppings of civets.

Kopi Luwak chooses to make Kopi Luwak from the feces of civets. Indonesia grows a large number of coffee crops, including wild animals called civets, omnivores, pointed mouths and dark gray fur. Indonesians call them "Luwak". Luwak likes to choose the most ripe, sweet, juicy coffee fruit in the coffee tree as food. The coffee fruit passes through its digestive system, only the pulp of the fruit appearance is digested, and the hard coffee beans will be excreted by Luwak. After this digestion process, the coffee bean has a magical change, the flavor is unique, the taste is particularly mellow, which is incomparable to other coffee beans.

In general, the production process of coffee beans is to remove the peel, pulp and sheep skin of the coffee fruit after the sun, and finally take out the coffee beans. Luwak's digestive system destroys the protein in coffee beans, thus reducing the bitterness of the coffee and increasing the roundness. The raw coffee beans extracted and processed from the feces of Luwak are Kopi Luwak.

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